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Across the social sciences, including business ethnography, the so-called “best practice” for qualitative data analysis is to use coding, the process of categorizing data by applying tags to portions of it. These tags, and the data they label, can then be used to underpin […]

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The following is an excerpt from the introduction to a forthcoming master’s thesis in anthropology which I am working on at the moment. This quasi-autoethnographic piece looks at why I am interested in ethics and ethnography in the context of management consulting. I’m sure […]

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Recently, I experienced the following scene during a client meeting to review preliminary research results from the “ethnography” phase of a short service design consulting engagement: The research team, having been deeply engaged in fieldwork for several weeks, has worked up some preliminary findings […]

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The CBC’s Fifth Estate, a documentary show that presents a weekly 60 Minutes style documentary, recently aired the corporation’s official public reckoning with the Jian Ghomeshi affair. (We know there’s perhaps some sort of report still to come from the CBC’s third party probe […]

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Leading up to the impending start of my graduate program in anthropology, I have gotten myself involved in an initiative which—based in the Department—will explore ‘real-world’ and sometimes non-academic applications of ethnographic research. While that initiative continues to be mostly under wraps because it […]

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Anthropology is, with music and mathematics, one of the few true vocations; and the anthropologist may become aware of it within himself before ever he has been taught it. (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1961) It is a notable curiosity that many anthropologists who made […]

"When people ask me why I'm leaving New York, I give a variety of answers. Often, I just say that it's time for a change. But it is also a retreat of sorts. I'm not leaving because of Trump, but I'm not *not* leaving because of him, either." https://t.co/tl27FBe6PE

“Thinking about heatwaves and getting lost in theoretical speculations, I got caught into the trap of what Freud called fetishist disavowal: I know very well (how serious the danger is), but I nonetheless don’t really believe it can happen.” https://t.co/CvDvbKX075